Off Topic Coronavirus and Quarantine

welcome to my world brother.

the supermarkets should lock up the trolleys and make folk use baskets. Problem solved.

the 100m long queue I saw at Tesco today as I drove to the local convenience store had gaps between people of no more than 30cm. God our species deserves everything which is coming with idiots like that alive.

 

Woah, steady on there. I didn’t venture into Consett.

And what’s with the “brother” comment.

I just want everyone who posts and reads this forum to know that I have no, absolutely no, family ties or connections with Chippy either directly or indirectly. As I say none whatsoever.

 

Somebody that denies something this much obviously has something to hide.

 

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One of my favourite all time songs...but only if played at full volume.

 

he who beeleth loudest...

clearly Trev is trying to cover something up.

 

I rarely come on this forum these days, but with some of you I go back along way. Just thought I would say that footballing rivalries aside I hope you all get to the other side of this nightmare intact.

 

Same here. Hope you and your family come through this unscathed and you can get back to supporting your team properly again.



The phrase "Out of the frying pan, into the fire" springs to mind.

 

Thanks RAW, I hope you, your family and friends stay safe .

 

likewise Whitey. Football seems irrelevant now.

 

For anybody who wants to figure out whether this is serious or not I just received this from the Prime Minister of Papua new Guinea.

Basically shutting the country down both internally and to outsiders for 14days after their first case.

If you can't be bothered reading at least marvel in the following phrase:

10. No border crossing by foot or canoe and police presence in border areas will be stepped up.

 

Stay safe Whitey

 

Hope you come through this safe and sound, and last long enough to watch Sunderland 'til I Die Season 15 and beyond.

Whether that is a blessing or a curse, I leave up to you.

 

Not to me it ****ing doesn't

 

So this is how my weekend panned out. Sat morning I took my brother up to local Aldi with me. He still lives with my mother (same street as me) and she's just had an operation and can't drive for a couple of months. My brother doesn't drive so being the nice guy I am and knowing i'm gonna need stuff anyways we head up there and there for 7.30ish (opens at 8). We're the first ones there. By opening time, the queue that has formed is so big that staff come out to inform us that they can't let everyone in at the same time and there's a security guard on the door minimising the footfall in the shop.

To their credit the shelves were well stocked and there was plenty of pretty much everything....not a bag of spaghetti or pasta shapes in sight however. We proceeded to get most of what we individually needed for our respective households for the week with minimal fuss and were out and back in the car some 30 mins later. Had we waited until mid-morning or any later I'm confident we would have struggled to get most of what we needed.

Sat afternoon me and the Mrs went out and headed up to Warkworth with the dog for a walk on the beach. We must have passed about 2 or 3 people on the beach, it was pretty perfect albeit a tad windy. Really missed not being able to stop off and grab a bite or a pint, even though the Mason's Arms was still open for some bizarre reason despite the ban coming into force that very day.

Sunday we did nowt, went nowhere and saw nobody. Those people who felt the need to go out and visit their mothers, i just hope that your mother is there for you to visit her next year....there's literally no need for it! Don't even get me started on the masses that were decending on Tynemouth/Whitley Bay and packing out the Ice Cream parlours and Chippies....it's these people that are going to force us into a lockdown rather than just being ****ing sensible about things.

Stay safe people and for ****s sake stay indoors. If you don't have to go out then don't.

 

My kids had planned to take my wife out for lunch on Mother's Day but as the restaurants were shut they agreed to cook for her at one of their houses. When she told me she was going over to see them I said you really shouldn't and she said that the warning only applied to old mothers!

 

Quite right. Only applies to those who are old or those aspiring to be.

 

Quite wrong.

Warning applies to everyone. All social contact should be avoided where possible. And where it is not avoidable to comply with social distancing.

 

Groot is right. It sounds like it applies to him as well.

 

I was trying to make a rather dark joke. But, for the avoidance of doubt, yes, you’re right. I’ll reword it.